Today’s links The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline: Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline (permalink) Being watched sucks. Of all the parenting mistakes I’ve made, none haunt me more than the times my daughter caught me watching her while she was learning to do something, discovered she was being observed in a vulnerable moment, and abandoned her attempt: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance It’s hard to be your authentic self while you’re under surveillance. For that reason alone, the rise and rise of the surveillance industry – an unholy public-private partnership between cops, spooks, and ad-tech scum – is a plague on humanity and a scourge on the Earth: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does But beyond the psychic damage surveillance metes out, there are immediate, concrete ways in which surveillance brings us to harm. Ad-tech follows us into abortion clinics and then sells the info to the cops back home in the forced birth states run by Handmaid’s Tale LARPers: https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/29/no-i-in-uter-us/#egged-on And even if you have the good fortune to live in a state whose motto isn’t “There’s no ‘I” in uter-US,” ad-tech also lets anti-abortion propagandists trick you into visiting fake “clinics” who defraud you into giving birth by running out the clock on terminating your pregnancy: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers The commercial surveillance industry fuels SWATting, where sociopaths who don’t like…Pluralistic: The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline (29 Sept 2023)